Natural Coupling

Ah, a fellow orangutan sits here on my chair, along with his partner.



Now this is the way I want to be at some point in the future, just as lucky as my little orangutan. So it would seem I need to find a hedgehog for a partner.

This could be tricky.

Truth, Beauty, Freedom, but above all Love...

Love is a many splendored thing.

Watched 'Moulin Rouge!' last night. What a fantastic film!



Essentially a treatise on the true value of love. How absolutely critical it is to who we are, what we are, why it is everything.

Amongst the many songs they extracted lines from throughout the film, the two most important seemed to me to be the following:

"All you need is love." - Once you've truly understood this line, you're halfway there.

"Love lifts us up where we belong." - Beautiful and profound, 'where we belong' - we are supposed to soar, bellowed in to the sky by the winds of love, not stuck glumly to the cold floor of loneliness.

To all those that fall within the sound of these words I commend you to never stop seeking love, and if you find it, treasure it, for it is as vital as the air you breathe, the water that quenches your thirst, the fire that warms you, and the earth that supports you.

If you get stuck, remember the words of Morcheeba:

We always have a choice
Or at least I think we do
We can always use our voice
I thought this to be true
We can live in fear
Extend our selves to love
We can fall below
Or lift our selves above

Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
But it's not always that clear

Call me bohemian, foolish, or deluded, but I have always held this ideal, and gave this blessing to people.

Peace & Love

Oh dear, spent too much money again....

Hmm, it appears that I have spent far far too much money this week. For someone who is terminally unemployed this is not a hard state to get in, and indeed I manage it most weeks. But this week I really blew out, darn.

Firstly spent about a month's food budget in the health food stores on Monday. (What? Don't look at me like that. :( They do sell edible stuff too, yes really.) Fry's Vegetarian range is very useful for the busy vegan with no time to cook (and the vegan with 100% free time who happens to like fake meaty things and is bone idle).

[force feeding pro-veggie information]
-- copied from Fry's without permission.

Don't eat meat! Why???

Did you know every year 45 billion animals are killed worldwide for human consumption! In Germany alone 332 million roasting chickens, 24 million soup chickens, 10 million pigs, 20 million turkeys, 14 million ducks, 4 million cows, 1 million geese, 1 million sheep and 7500 horses are slaughtered.

[/force feeding pro-veggie information]

Anyhow, at the weekend I was browsing through eBay and saw some lovely bunnies.



They were Winnie the Pooh stuff, and only a fiver include p&p, but I missed the auction by 30 seconds. Luckily there were no bids and I talked to the seller and got them sent to me. Yay. :)

Unfortunately I also saw on eBay that Santa Claus The Movie was released on DVD, I had to have that, so ordered it from Play.

Whilst there, I noticed Red Dwarf Season 5 was out, thought wait till Christmas. Then saw a Limited Edition set with a Starbug model in it. Ordered that. :$



Additionally, I decided that I had better buy the new Joanna Newsom album, and as I wanted to qualify for free delivery at amazon decided to get that 'Coope, Boyes and Simpson' album I have been after for months as well, and a Spinners album to pad it out.


Days later, well 2, I was in a book shop waiting for my mum to leave a clothing shop designed exclusively for the older women in society and saw an amazing book.



But I had already spend a fortune and couldn't justify spending the cash (I see Amazon has it 40% off, FFS). So I walked on by, with a little effort. Then my mum turned up and was looking at gardening books. I saw another book.



[It's about the myths and legends surrounding all the different types of native trees in Britain, very interesting.]

This was only a fiver so I decided to buy it. But that would require my card. So my personal logic device in my head decided that as I was buying something I couldn't afford, I might aswell buy the other thing I couldn't afford aswell. Arse.

I now have lots of stuff, and more debt, my vegan society membership also finally came through for the year with a couple of books I ordered. So all in all a ruddy expensive week.

Oh and I put £3 in the Poppy Appeal box, I'm very generous with my bank's money.

Evil money. I'm normally better than this honest. Role on Christmas. :$

Quizzes know me too well...

Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

Hooray, hooray, I got my favourite. Wol rocks.



Discover your Zodiac Personality @ Quiz Me

Well apart from the "unforgettable" bit, I'd agree with that.

So very good. Kosh is definitely someone I look up to, so that cheered me up.

Withdrawn (I) 60% Outgoing (E) 40% Imaginative (N) 76.67% Realistic (S) 23.33% Emotional (F) 58.33% Intellectual (T) 41.67% Improvised (P) 62.86% Organized (J) 37.14% Your type is: INFP You are an Idealist, possible professions include - information-graphics designer, college professor, researcher, legal mediator, social worker, holistic health practitioner, occupational therapist, diversity manager, human resource development specialist, employment development specialist, minister/priest/rabbi, missionary, psychologist, writer

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Reasonably accurate once again, definitely an idealist, not a realist. Plus, many jobs that I have considered are in that list. Obviously it didn't have my current occupation of "bum".

Are you Addicted to the Internet? 75% Hardcore Junkie (61% - 80%) While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What's that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don't get a repetitive wrist injury... The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Quiz Me!

Guilty as charged, although having my machine busted does reduce this lameness.

BLUE You give your love and friendship unconditionaly. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive. Find out your color at Quiz Me!

Well hopefully, doubt that side of me comes off...

I AM 22% WHITE TRASH! I, my friend, have class. I am so not white trash. . I am more than likely Democrat, and my place is neat, and there is a good chance I may never drink wine from a box. Take the WHITE TRASH test at Fuali.com

Yay, thank christ for that. I think the fact it asked me if I was a vegan swung it. :D

I AM 75% EVIL GENIUS! I am pure evil. I lie awake at night devising schemes of world domination, and I will not rest until all living souls bend to my will. Take the EVIL GENIUS test at Fuali.com

Well we always knew...

I AM 56% GEEK! Nerd, Freak, Geek, Dweeb. Sound familiar? That's okay, cause I will be the richest person at my 15th year high school reunion. If a "con" isn't happening that weekend. Take the GEEK test at Fuali.com

God damn it!



find your inner PIE @ stvlive.com

Bah! No pie for me. Less than 1% of people got that result. I must've done something bad in a past life. Actually, it was probably this one. :(

[Apologies to Stormfilled, as I've obviously just done a load of tests off your log... :$]

Update - As suggest by Texas Gurl


You are Mokey Fraggle.


Which Fraggle Rock Character Are You?
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News From The Front...America_A beats America_B

Damn it!!

I can not believe they elected him. Twice!



Well actually I can, but I feel very sorry for AmericaB. After watching countless hours of documentaries and listening to various american friends and staying up till 6am this morning listening to reasons trotted out by american voters for voting the way they did I have concluded the following. The USA is actually 2 seperate nations, not geographically disperate, but ideologically and morally foreign to each other. Almost all states seem to be either roughly 50/50 or 67/33 split between the parties, and the popular vote for the country as a whole pans this out.

So many of the voters had very weak arguments for their choice of candidate. All sorts of things from "I hate the gays, there are no gays in the bible" too "Just a gut feeling".... What happened to actual political opinions??

People do seem to be living on different planets let alone continents, all seems to ride on what television station they watch mainly. Or how American they feel they are, I've heard so many people say that to be a patriot you have to support Bush.

WTF? If you want to help the USA be safe, pick the candidate that will achieve this. Will Bush, will he ever. Kerry may not have either, but he stood at least as much of a chance as Bush.

When will the US understand that regardless of how powerful they are, they need to keep the rest of the world onside with them, at least to a small extent. The current policies are alienating them from practically everyone.

It'll all end in tears at this rate.

Oh well, another 4 years of education. :'(